What is the white power movement, why should you care?

Free webinar offers insight • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16

Did you know there is a common thread between the mass shooting at the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the distribution of hate literature here in the Quad-Cities by a chapter of the National Alliance? All the individuals involved share an ideology that is tied to the white power movement.

Learn what the white power movement is and the threat it poses.

What: FREE Zoom webinar, “The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America”

When: 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16

Presenter: Dr. Kathleen Belew, assistant professor of U.S. history at the University of Chicago and the author of “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America”

Offered by: One Human Family of the Quad-Cities Area, along with the Davenport-Bettendorf American Association of University Women, the Metrocom NAACP of Davenport, Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities, One Human Family Macomb, Progressive Action for the Common Good, Quad Cities Interfaith, Temple Beth El of Dubuque and Temple Emanuel of Davenport. It also is made possible in part by grants from the Doris & Victor Day Foundation and the Puffin Foundation, the Goldstein Family, the Joyce & Tony Singh Family Foundation .